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Cognac is produced in the AOC region that is defined by the decree of 1st May 1909. The area spreads into the Department of the Charente Maritime, the Charente and a small are of the Deux-Sèvres and the Dordogne.
The vineyards cover 80 000 hectares of which 75 000 hectares are white grapes for Cognac production. The Charente and its 5,365 properties alone represent 50% of the production of these vineyards and of white wine that has the right to be called Cognac. The essential parts of production and commercial activities are concentrated within the region.
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In Charente the Cognac business employs around 17,000 people out of a total of 22,000 in the limits of the region, as follows :
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500 people in vine growing
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000 in distillation and sales
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400 in associated professions (glass, packaging, transport…)
Cognac sales and Cognac based products, were 145 million bottles in 2002.
Cognac is exported around the World (93,3%) and contributes 1.26 billion Euros to the trade surplus of France, and 70% of the Poitou-Charentes Region's surplus.
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